Pollo, Tatiana Cury, Rebecca Treiman & Brett Kessler. 2004, June. Influence of writing systems on young children’s spelling in English and Portuguese. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
This study investigated differences in early spellings of Portuguese and English speakers. We performed a frequency analysis of letter names and types in the words of each language. These analyses revealed that Portuguese has more vowel letter names and a higher vowel–consonant ratio than English. We examined the effects of these differences by asking preschoolers to spell words varying by number of vowel letter names. Children used more vowels when spelling words with more vowel letter names, and they spelled these words more reasonably than those that contained one letter name. Overall, Portuguese speakers used more vowels than English speakers.
Pollo, T. C., Treiman, R., & Kessler, B. (2004, June). Influence of writing systems on young children’s spelling in English and Portuguese. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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